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Sometimes the popular thing isn't the lowest common denominator; it's just really, really good. Take the Green Gloves cocktail at Mayahuel in New York's East Village. "People go bonkers for this one," says co-owner and bartender Philip Ward. "We must go through over a case of jalapeño-infused tequila in a week."
The homemade infusion makes up the Green Gloves' spicy spine. To concoct it, Ward combines jalapeño seeds and membranes with blanco tequila: "The green stuff would give you too much of its vegetal flavor," he explains.
There's already plenty of that in the spicy drink, thanks to fresh celery juice and Green Chartreuse. The celery and peppery jalapeño bring out the Chartreuse's herbaceous notes for an incredibly refreshing combination. "It has to have a cooling accent with all that spice," notes Ward. "The celery gives you that accent; it brings both balance and complexity."
On the other side of all that savory spice is a gentle sweetness and citrus, shaken and single-strained, allowing for pleasantly small, rogue ice chips to infiltrate the slight foaminess that forms on top. A sprinkle of salt brings the flirtation of sugar, spice, and everything herbal and bright full circle. A blend of smoked salt and kosher salt (the pure smoked salt would have wiped out the other flavors) rocks your nose on the first sip and then mellows out, lacing the rest of the drink lightly.
The finished product is as fun to drink as it is refreshing, carrying just enough heat to keep you from sucking it down in one big sip.


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ATTA BOY JIMMY!!!!.... ...Danny Wallace rocks!!!....i'm so happy he's doing 'Yes Man'...and perhaps if that goes well Jim will do 'Join Me' too. ........
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Burton might still be directing?
Status: Delayed
From Burton's side came the news that he's doing his live-action/motion capture mix revision of 'Alice in Wonderland' for Disney and next the full versio of his own short-film Frankiweeni.
So I guess 'Ripley' is out of the picture. Carrey, get out of this project now, dude, it's doomed. Even if someone has the same fantasy as Burton, people will blame the movie for not being made by him.
Sad, sad news. This could have been something great, big and wonderfull.
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Renovations Underway at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. in Virginia Beach
In 2009, the A.R.E. unveiled a series of building and renovation projects and technological innovations to bring their facilities into the 21st Century. As part of the organization's C.R.E.A.T.E. campaign, these projects total more than $5 million and have been underwritten by contributions of A.R.E. members throughout the world.
First, there were renovations to the smallest building on the property known as the Gibbon's House. This facility is used to house the Spa Wellness weeks, where individuals receive spa treatments, massage, chiropractic services, and dietary guidance for a week at a time. Then came technological innovations to the center's conference facilities, creating the capability of live-stream programming.
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Next came the creation of the deLaski Family Foundation Education Center, which houses two of the organization's schools: Atlantic University, offering a master's degree program in Transpersonal Studies, and the Cayce/Reilly School of Massage, offering a 700-hour program in massage therapy. Located in that new buildings ground floor is the Edgar Cayce Foundation, which houses the organization's archives, collected since before the original founding date of 1931.
The project now underway is the renovation of the Edgar Cayce Hospital building (built in 1928), which houses organizational offices and the popular A.R.E. Health Center & Spa. Renovations will include the installation of an elevator (for the first time in the building's history!), new siding, a new sweeping stairway in the style of the original hospital, upgrades to the Spa, and the creation of the Cayce/Miller Café and Copeland Dining Room on the first floor. The project is on schedule to be completed by June 2014.
According to CEO Kevin Todeschi, "At first this entire project seemed like an impossible dream, but it has all been made possible through the dedication of our donors and members throughout the world. I think Edgar Cayce himself would be very pleased with the results."
Artist rendering of completed renovations.
Long in need of renovations, the historic hospital building will be remodeled to look like the original hospital building and the recently built education center. When the historic building was first constructed—for the then staggering sum of almost $200,000 (including state-of-the-art hospital equipment), the hospital employed doctors, nurses, osteopaths, and physiotherapists who carried out treatments recommended by Edgar Cayce's psychic readings. In fact, for many individuals the hospital was seen as their last ray of hope. Although he drew upon the wisdom of every school of medicine, Cayce would come to be called "the father of holistic medicine."
More information about this project is available at EdgarCayce.org/create.
(C.R.E.A.T.E. stands for Construct, Renovate, Employ, Accelerate, Technology, and Endow)


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I have a fundamental question and I think it somewhere on the c++ book but I could not find it. Any help would be very appreciates.
Question: I am doing OK for the n! for integer type from 1 to 16. But I have problem when i start to enter 17. What is the problem here. Is this because the integer type?
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#include <iostream.h>
int main()
int in, out;
out = 1;
cout << "Enter input number \n\n";
cin >> in;
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- This article is about the film. For other uses, see Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (disambiguation).
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire is the fifth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on VHS and DVD on March 4, 2003.
Mystery Inc. infiltrate an Australian rock music festival after the Yowie Yahoo kidnaps the contestants.
There is a legend of a vampire named the Yowie Yahoo, who lives in Vampire Rock where the "Vampire Rock Music Festival" is being set up. Many people are excited for it, but some don't think it should take place because it would anger the Yowie Yahoo. One such person is Malcolm Illiwara, but the problem is, his own grandson Daniel is the manager of the contest! One night, as Malcolm and his grandson watch a sure-to-win performer named Matt Marvelous, the Yowie Yahoo appears! The Yowie Yahoo and its three vampire minions capture Matt Marvelous and take him away. Everybody is scared, and Malcolm blames the contest for what happened.
Meanwhile, Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. arrive in Australia for a vacation after solving the mystery of the Sea Serpent Smugglers on a cruise ship. After seeing the harbor, the gang decides to go to the outback and see the music festival. When they arrive, they meet the Hex Girls (the band the gang had met before when they visited Oakhaven), who are the opening act. They also see Daniel, Malcolm, and Russell, who runs the contest with Daniel. Malcolm says he has warned Daniel about what has happened and drives off. Daniel tells them that most of the performers have left because they are too scared of the vampires. Daniel and Russell then tell them about Wildwind, a musical group who performed at the Vampire Rock Music Festival the year before. They tell the gang Wildwind put on a great performance, but only got third place. They then went into Vampire Rock to camp, but were never heard from again. There were three performers, Dark Skull, Stormy Weathers, and Lightning Strikes. Legend says that they have been turned into Vampires by the Yowie Yahoo. Daniel says he does not believe it, but then Russell reminded him that the three Vampires who were with the Yowie Yahoo when it kidnapped Matt Marvelous looked just like the members of Wildwind!
Fred decides the best way to solve the mystery is to enter the contest as a band, in order to drive the Yowie Yahoo to capture them. Russell is skeptical, but Daniel thinks it is a good idea. The Hex Girls make them look like rock stars, and soon they are on stage. While they are practicing, (but not very well), a golf cart approaches them. In it are Jasper Ridgeway, a snotty manager, and his band, the Bad Omens, who have three performers (King, Queen, and Jack). They criticize the gangs playing and make them leave the stage so they can practice. Then the gang learns that Ridgeway was once the manager of Wildwind, and says that Wildwind was the greatest band he ever managed and is sad that they disappeared. He then complains about the head and camping, and goes back to his "tent", leaving his band to practice. The gang grows suspicious of Ridgeway and thinks he might have put his band up to masquerading as vampires and getting rid of all the other performers. They split up, with Fred, Velma, and Daphne going to Jasper's trailer and Shaggy and Scooby staying at the food stands.
At the trailer, Fred, Velma, and Daphne find that Jasper has lots of mementos of Wildwind, including three copies of the suits the band members used. They also wonder why Jasper did not come to his trailer, (as they have been there); when he said he was going to. Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy get chased by the Wildwind Vampires, but eventually loose them. They end up back at the stage, where the Bad Omens are rehearsing. There, they witness the Yowie Yahoo and the Wildwind vampires capture the Bad Omens is the same way they captured Matt Marvelous. They tell the others. Jasper is sad they are gone, but then he says he should have gone back to his trailer, when in fact he was never there at all. Fred decides that everyone should sleep at the same place, so no one gets taken.
During the night, a band named Two Skinny Dudes arrives. They say they have been staying in Vampire Rock, but have not seen anything. Jasper quickly forgets the Bad Omens and asks Two Skinny Dudes if they wanted him to be their manager, which makes the gang suspicious. The next day the gang and Daniel go to see Malcolm. He explains how Wildwind was foolish to go into Vampire Rock. He also says how Vampires hate the sun, cannot run over running water, and cannot be seen in a picture. That night is the performance, and the Hex Girls start things off. However, the Yowie Yahoo and the Wildwind vampires appear and capture the Hex Girls! The crowd thinks it was an act, but the gang decides to investigate the rock.
Inside, Fred, Velma, and Daphne find lots of special effects equipment like fans and lights. However, they also find the Wildwind Vampires and get chased. Scooby and Shaggy get trapped by a group of dingoes. The sound of Fred, Velma, and Daphne running scares off the Dingoes, but then the whole gang gets trapped by the vampires and the Yowie Yahoo. The gang is able to avoid them until the sun comes up. The sun reflects off Scooby-Doo's collar, which shines on the Yowie Yahoo and destroys him. However, the Wildwind vampires are not affected by the sun or running over water, and give chase to the gang. The chase them until the gang and Daniel unleash a trap and capture the "vampires." Jasper and Daniel are confused at who did it, but the gang knows. After splashing water on the faces to get rid of the makeup, the gang shows that it was Two Skinny Dudes and Russell. Daniel and Jasper are surprised, but get even more surprised when the gang unmasks them and it is shown that the members of Wildwind are the actual Vampires. They explain how they wanted to start up their career, so they posed as dead and were planning to perform again. They used special effects to make the Yowie Yahoo and climbing equipment to fly around. When asked about the missing performers, they said they gave them free Great Barrier Reef scuba diving tours and sent them away. Then the Hex Girls and Malcolm show up. They say they were left in the outback because they did not want the trip, but Malcolm found them.
Daniel says that Mystery Inc.'s band is the only one left, so they win. The gang end the festival with a performance of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" to the crowd, and getting their band name, The Meddling Kids.
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Malcolm Illiwara (single appearance)
- Daniel Illiwara (single appearance)
- Hex Girls
- Jasper Ridgeway (single appearance)
- Bad Omens (single appearance)
- Yowie Yahoo (single appearance)(no lines)(projection)
- Yowie Yahoo's minions (single appearance)(no lines)(Wildwind's disguises)
- Wildwind (single appearance)
- Dark Skull (single appearance)(Russell's disguise)
- Russell (single appearance)
- Stormy Weathers (single appearance)(Harry's disguise)
- Harry (single appearance)
- Lightning Strikes (single appearance)(Barry's disguise)
- Barry (single appearance)
- Wildwind (single appearance)
- Sea Serpent Smugglers (single appearance)(no lines)(disguise)
- Shark creature/man in costume (single appearance)(no lines)(disguise)
- Peg leg captain/man in costume (single appearance)(no lines)
- Kelp monster/man in costume (single appearance)(no lines)
Other characters:
- Matt Marvelous (single appearance)
- Bondi Beach lifeguards (single appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
- Great white shark (single appearance)(no lines)
- Australian king parrot (single appearance)(no lines)
- Emu (single appearance)(no lines)
- Frill-necked lizard (single appearance)(no lines)
- Koala (single appearance)(no lines)
- Crocodile (single appearance)(no lines)
- Dingoes (single appearance)(no lines)
- Vampire Rock
- Sydney, Australia
- United States (mentioned)
- Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
- Pizza
- Doggie bag
- Shaggy's binoculars
- Scooby's binoculars
|Malcolm Illiwara
|He warned his grandson against angering the Yowie Yahoo with the music festival.
|Jasper Ridgeway
|So that his band win the contest.
|Bad Omens
|To win the band contest.
|Two Skinny Dudes
|To win the band contest. At one point they were the only band left at the contest.
| Russell as Dark Skull
Barry as Lightning Strikes
Harry as Stormy Weathers
|To win the band contest.
|Performed by
|Character performance by
|"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"
|Written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh
|"Gotta Go"
|Written by Rich Dickerson
|"Getaway Yeah"
|Written by Rich Dickerson, Gigi Meroni, and Carter Armstrong
|Holland Greco
|"Hex Girl"
| Written by Bodie Chandler and Glenn Leopold
Produced by Gary Lionelli and Bodie Chandler
|Kimberly Brooks, Jennifer Hale, and Jane Wiedlin
|The Hex Girls
|"Who Do Voodoo"
|Written by Jane Wiedlin
|Jane Wiedlin
|"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"
|Written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh
|Krystal Harris
|Velma Dinkley
- This is the second appearance of the Hex Girls; they previously appeared in another DTV Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Due to the lightened tone of this movie compared to the former, the exact details of their previous encounter isn't brought up (their appearance and personalities have also been toned down dramatically to be less frightening for younger audiences (and likewise for the lightened tone of this movie).
- The scuba gear Shaggy and Scooby quickly changed into while Wildwind explained they gave all the kidnapped bands free trips to the Great Barrier Reef, were the same exact ones they used in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode A Clue for Scooby Doo.
- This film takes the series strictly back to the "traditional" format in terms of animation, the "just a guy in a mask" format, the Hanna-Barbera (HB) sound effects (including "Castle Thunder" and remaking the 1969 background music of Ted Nichols), the 1971 zooming HB logo at the end of the credits (but without the music), and reunites the surviving cast (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, and Heather North) of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (season two) and The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Don Messick, Scooby's original voice, died in 1997.
- Although the movie was released in 2003, it has a copyright year of 2002. This suggests the movie was produced and completed in 2002, but it was held over to spring 2003 due to the release of the live-action Scooby-Doo film on home video.
- On their way to Vampire Rock, Scooby & Shaggy are playing what appears to be a video game based on Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase from the previous film, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.
- The shark biting away at Scooby and Shaggy's surfboard is a reference to the opening to The Scooby-Doo Show when a shark bites away at Scooby's water skis, complete with identical sound effect.
- Velma's revealed to love singing (as well as having a beautiful singing voice) but claims that she doesn't like singing in front of so many people, as she suffers from stage fright.
- This is the last movie to make use of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song, so it seems befitting that the gang would be the ones to perform it. The song would later return in Scoobynatural, and SCOOB!. Along with a short variation of the song as the theme song for Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
- Kasem and Welker did an audio commentary as Shaggy, Scooby, and Fred, for one of the DVD special features. (During the opening credits, Shaggy humorously remarks, "Who's this, Casey Kasem, as Shaggy; I'm me, and I play myself, and Scooby wants to know who this Frank Welker is.")
- The word "Yowie-Yahoo" is seemingly a portmanteau of the Australian aboriginal terms "Yowie Yowie" and "Yara-ma-yha-who."
- The Yowie is actually supposed to be a bipedal ape-like creature similar to Bigfoot and the Yeti.
- This film and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico were dedicated to Hanna-Barbera co-founder William Hanna.
- Disguises:
- Scooby Snacks bribe:
- "Ruh-roh" count:
- "Zoinks" count:
- "Jeepers" count:
- "Jinkies" count:
- Running gags: Each time Shaggy plays his guitar, a string breaks.
Cultural references
- At the end of the movie, where the dingoes are howling, one of them is holding it's leg in the air. This is an exact reference to the animated DTV Balto II: Wolf Quest, where Aleu would hold her leg in the air when she howled.
Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches
- None known.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities
- The accents of Malcolm, Daniel, and Russell are that of New Zealanders and not of Australians.
- While you can pay to climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there are no telescopes on the top, and you can't see Bondi Beach from there.
- Australia has no native cats (aside from domesticated and cats), and the dingos seen in this movie look more like wolves rather than what they truly look like (large golden-yellow dogs with curved tails).
- It is never explained how the Yowie Yahoo could use lightning beams to pull the performers up to him when he would attack and kidnap the bands.
- Some scenes show cars driving on the right, but this is set in Australia, where cars drive on the left.
- Malcolm is shown sending smoke signals. This is a tradition of Native Americans, not indigenous Australians.
- It seems strange that Jasper wouldn't recognize Wildwind without their makeup, considering that he used to be their manager and should have at least one time seen the band without their makeup.
- In real life, female red kangaroos are bluish-gray, and have pouches. The males (which are reddish-orange) don't carry them.
In other languages
|Скуби-Ду! И легенда о Вампире
|Scooby Doo! And the legend of the Vampire
Home media
- Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire VHS released by Warner Home Video on March 4, 2003.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire DVD released by Warner Home Video on March 4, 2003.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire Blu-ray Disc released by Warner Home Video on March 12, 2013 (encoded Regions A & B).
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"One day after an outraged Congressman denounced a Pentagon ban on Bibles or any other religious literature in U.S. military hospital, the Obama Administration has dropped the policy.
"But questions linger. Why would unelected bureaucrats think they can ban Bibles? How did such a policy ever get approved? Who is responsible?
"In Texas, an ongoing battle has been waged by the Veterans Administration and volunteers from the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Officials at Houston's national cemetery barred any religious ceremonies at graveside and ignored denunciations by members of Congress as well as infuriated families. Calls have resounded nationwide for the firing of the cemetery's director — but she has remained in office.
"Now, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) has demanded that officials explain why bureaucrats have prohibited family members of wounded military troops from bringing Bibles or any religious reading materials to their loved ones.
"'The President of the United States should address this and should excoriate the people who brought about this policy and the individual who brought it about should be dismissed from the United States Military," said Congressman King.
"Speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives, King blasted an order from the commander of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center written by Chief of Staff C.W. Callahan. The September 14th memo covers guidelines for "wounded, ill and injured partners in care."
"'No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit," the policy states.
"'That means you can't bring in a Bible and read from it when you visit your son or your daughter, perhaps – or your wife or husband," King said. "It means a priest that might be coming in to visit someone on their death bed couldn't bring in the Eucharist, couldn't offer Last
"Rites. This is the most outrageous affront."
"Now the ban has been lifted...
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29/09/2004 - A new OECD report praises the innovative and effective environmental policies of Sweden. For instance, Sweden makes good use of economic incentives to protect the environment, including environmental taxes, and is on track to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The OECD notes, however, that Sweden needs to further progress towards its environmental objectives and to better integrate environmental concerns into the industry, energy, transport, forestry, and agriculture sectors.
Sweden's Minister of the Environment, Lena Sommestad, and the OECD's Environment Director, Lorents Lorentsen, will release the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Sweden at a news conference at Rosenbad, Stockholm, at 10.00 a.m. on 1st October 2004.
The report recommends that Sweden could better manage its environment by:
Sweden gives high priority to sustainable development, and the report offers a number of recommendations to further integrate environmental concerns with economic and social policies including:
The report notes considerable environmental achievements by Sweden over the past 10 years, including:
This publication is part of the OECD regular series of Environmental Performance Reviews of OECD member countries and extensively uses environmental indicators. The report reviews Sweden's progress in the context of its domestic policy objectives and international commitments, including the OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century.
To obtain the OECD Environmental review of Sweden, under embargo until Friday 1st October, journalists are invited to OECD's Media Relations Division . For information about the OECD's Environmental Performance Reviews, journalists are invited to contact Helen Fisher (tel. (33 1) 45 24 80 97).
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Some people have a knack for cooking; some don't. That is wisdom learned the hard way by culinary instructors I know, and a view that has become clear to me from fielding readers' questions.
Now, that doesn't mean those with less aptitude get a pass. Just about everybody ought to cook at home, for the reasons long touted: It's cost-effective. It's a lifelong skill. It's sociable. We all deserve to eat well.
When cooking becomes an effort that's Sisyphean instead of satisfying, the thing to do - for everyone, really - is to aim for greater efficiency in the kitchen. That calls for critical thinking, organization and shortcuts.
The first step is a no-brainer, and perhaps that's the hitch. When you are following a recipe, read it through with a critical eye. Comprehend the steps; do they make sense, or have you come across a better way to do the task at hand? Consider ingredient substitutions that might make the dish sing for you. Not all recipe headnotes flag steps that might require advance prep; nobody likes the surprise of a stop in the action to soak beans or pickle something.
Dianne Jacob reads a recipe, then visualizes what she'll do. The food- and recipe-writing coach and author of "Will Write for Food" (Da Capo, 2010) has helped improve 18 cookbooks in the past 17 years, objecting to chef-driven directions along the lines of "Roast a duck in the usual manner." "Just because the recipe says 'Using a sharp knife . . .' to peel an eggplant doesn't mean I have to. I prefer a vegetable peeler," she says. Then again, if a chef's knife is the utensil you wield most comfortably, go with it.
Jacob says that organization does not necessarily entail mise en place, the French way of referring to a cadre of ingredients chopped and at the ready.
"It doesn't make sense to prep the garnish before you start the onions for a stew," she says. But having some things done in advance works for her, especially with a multi-step recipe when she's pressed for time. Jacob will marinate, shred and even chop the night before.
Better yet, she reaches for the convenience of prepped produce at the grocery store. Sometimes that's a more expensive exercise, but the trade-off works for her. She buys the amount she needs and throws away fewer vegetables gone bad.
A looser form of mise en place is helpful, however. Oakland culinary instructor Linda Carucci gathers ingredients and equipment as a second step, after reading the recipe.
"That goat cheese I had in the fridge. . . . I can make sure it's good to use," she says. "I don't want to be surprised by less of something than I thought I had." The most important step Carucci has learned seems to fly in the face of saving time. "I rinse stuff off as soon as I use it," she says. "It always takes me longer to clean up if I leave things all over the kitchen." Once she measures out olive oil, its cup goes right in the dishwasher. In fact, she empties the dishwasher before she starts to cook.
As the owner of a small kitchen, I need to adopt that strategy.
If you want to cook smarter, experts recommend:
Copy/print out your recipe. Post it at eye level by taping it to a wall cabinet or beneath a refrigerator magnet close to where you're working. There's less chance you'll miss a step.
Take the recipe with you when you shop. You're more likely to come home with everything you need.
If you tend to use lots of garlic, buy whole peeled cloves in bulk. Transfer them to a tall, wide-mouthed glass jar, submerge them in canola oil, seal tightly and refrigerate indefinitely. (Olive oil will solidify in the cold.) -- Reach for the right size knife. Using a small one to chop small things can speed up prep time.
Reorder the ingredients or steps to save time. There's no need to chop everything beforehand if the first ingredients need to marinate or cook/bake for a while; those minutes can be used to prep what's next on the list.
Sling a dish towel over your shoulder or tuck it into your belt. It'll keep you from reaching for too many paper towels.
Use a cutting board that's large enough to house the piles of ingredients you prep. You'll have fewer bowls to wash.
Seat a large, freezer-safe zip-top bag inside a mixing bowl. As you work, toss in scraps that can be used to make broth. You won't have to wash the bowl.
Cut vegetables and fruit to a similar size. They will cook evenly and, therefore, more efficiently.
Invest in a heavy, enamel-on-cast-iron Dutch oven. Due to its ability to transfer and contain even heat, cooking in it might reduce the time it takes to finish a dish.
Taste several times and add salt as the food cooks. The recipe might not specify that, but doing so will reduce the risk of ruining the dish by waiting until the very end to check the seasoning.
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DALLAS ? Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season: Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease ? in fact, were less likely to die of any cause ? during a 30-year Harvard study.
Nuts have long been called heart-healthy, and the study is the largest ever done on whether eating them affects mortality.
Researchers tracked 119,000 men and women and found that those who ate nuts roughly every day were 20 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who never ate nuts. Eating nuts less often also appeared to lower the death risk, in direct proportion to consumption.
The risk of dying of heart disease dropped 29 percent and the risk of dying of cancer fell 11 percent among those who had nuts seven or more times a week compared with people who never ate them.
The benefits were seen from peanuts as well as from pistachios, almonds, walnuts and other tree nuts. The researchers did not look at how the nuts were prepared ? oiled or salted, raw or roasted.
A bonus: Nut eaters stayed slimmer.
"There's a general perception that if you eat more nuts you're going to get fat. Our results show the opposite," said Dr. Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Researchers don't know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and inflammation and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
A stong commitment to the new
'It has been said that William Glock had a greater influence on musical culture in post-war Britain than anybody, and perhaps that is true. He would have been happier, I am sure, with a more modest epitaph: that he helped to make the understanding of music more acute. Inside and outside the BBC, he sought constantly for a repertory that was stimulating, and he made a strong commitment to the new, but one might say he did as much for Haydn and Schubert as for Stravinsky and Boulez. As for his BBC legacy, it needs re-articulating and defending by his successors in the same way as John Reith's does; it cannot be denied. More particularly, at the Proms every summer we take it for granted, and there, surely, there can be no going back' - from Stephen Plaistow's Guardian obituary of Sir William Glock (above) who was born on 3rd May, 1908 and died on 28th June, 2000. His centenary passes without any celebration on BBC Radio 3. But find lots more celebration here.
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- Pliable said...
Credit to the Guardian for remembering the anniversary, even if the BBC didn't. But does the leader writer really think Robert Simpson, Edmund Rubbra and Malcolm Arnold exhibit a 'homegrown "cowpat" tendency in British music' -
I wonder if the leader writer has even heard a Malcolm Arnold symphony? Where are the "cowpats" in this work?
- 10:39 am
- JMW said...
Ken Russell in his apposite ABC's of British Music takes the BBC to task through unforgettable imagery: Russell himself stand in a cemetery surrounded by gravestones, each bearing the name of a great British composer, Bridge and Bax there, Howeels and Scott over there, Ireland, Dyson, Brian here. That ossible said more about Glock's tenure than any obit.
- 3:11 pm
- Pliable said...
John, the problem is that since Glock we have had a succession of BBC executives who have managed to marginalise both contemporary music and Bridge, Bax, Howells et al.
People of the calibre of Glock always come with baggage, it's part of the estate. But give me someone with his passion, vision and willingness to take risks anyday over today's faceless mandarins with their Michael Ball evenings, Doctor Who stunts and fixed length programmes.
- 4:04 pm
- JMW said...
You're correct; next to what came after, Glock is an immortal giant.
- 3:12 pm


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Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of specialised mobile equipment for pumping wet concrete. Based in Korea, Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. was founded in 1980. Since then, their market has grown substantially and to-day, specialised equipment manufactured by Jun Jin is being exported to a number of markets throughout the world. Particularly in Europe, Jun Jin has established a strong market position. In 2003 the value of the company's export exceeded USD 16 million.
The company recently moved to brand new, technologically advanced production facilities at Chungbuk. The factory covers over 1.5 million square metres, and the company employs more than 150 people at the factory and service centre.
The situation
Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. has specialised in mobile concrete pumping units of various designs. The product line include 14 different models of truck-mounted boom pumps, 4 different models of line pump units, and a "shotcrete" unit.
The mobile units are based on imported truck brands such as Volvo, Scania, Mercedes Benz, M.A.N., and Mack, and each concrete pump unit can be adapted to the individual customer's specifications and requirements.
As soon as the concrete has been delivered at the building site, the system must be washed thoroughly down in order to prevent hardened concrete to settle in the system. Therefore, each unit is equipped with a water tank with one or two Grundfos CRK pumps installed.
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The Grundfos CRK immersible pumps are ideal for pumping liquids from an enclosed tank. The CRK pumps offer a flow capacity from 1 to 22 m³/h, at pressures up to 25 bar. The CRK pumps are designed for long periods of trouble-free operation with little or no maintenance required. For semi-aggressive liquids, or where high-grade quality materials are required, the CRK pumps are available in special versions with the pump parts made of high-grade stainless steel.
The Grundfos CRK pumps can be supplied for tank installation depths of up to 1005 mm. A special priming screw protects against dry running, however, the CRK pumps are capable of withstanding shorter periods of dry running if a problem should occur.
In addition to the standard range, the Grundfos CRK pumps are available in customised versions, purpose constructed for individual requirements and particularly difficult working conditions or difficult-tohandle liquids.
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Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. is currently manufacturing more than 30 concrete pump units, employing some 30 Grundfos CRK pumps every month. The Jun Jin concrete pumps have a very important role to play in connection with building projects in all corners of the world. These are projects where a delay as a result of equipment break down could have serious consequences. Component reliability is, therefore, of paramount importance. With the Grundfos CRK pumps, Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. experience trouble-free operation, and, when service and maintenance work is required, this is readily available locally regardless of the final destination of the machines.
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Mr. Tae yung Kim, Quality Control Manager of Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co., Chungbuk, Korea.
"Jun Jin Heavy Industry Co. builds concrete pumps of the highest quality for a global market. Reliability and performance are of paramount importance to us and to our international customers. Grundfos is a preferred supplier of specialised equipment, as this company fully lives up to our own high standards of quality and commitment."
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Cathy Albert named ALMH Employee of the Year
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[December 13, 2012]
Cathy Albert of Lincoln has been
named the 2012 Employee of the Year at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital in Lincoln.
CEO Dolan Dalpoas presented Albert with the honor Dec. 7 at the
annual ALMH Holiday Celebration and Awards Night at the Knights of
Albert works as a linen technician in environmental
services. Her positive attitude is what caught the attention of her
nominators and the ALMH Employee Activity Committee, who awarded the
"Cathy's heart is as big as they get, and she is such a help to
us, besides taking care of linen every day ... which is no easy
task. She is always there when you need help and will do a person's
work when they are off that day and never complain," her co-workers
said in the nomination.
Cathy was born at St. Clara's Hospital in Lincoln and has lived
in Lincoln most of her life, with the exception of some time living
in Springfield. She and her husband, Tom, have three daughters,
Tina, Desirae and Kaya, and a son, Floyd. She also has three
grandsons, Kyle, Alex and Braydon, and a great-grandson, Riley.
She enjoys scrapbooking, working in the garden, walking and
attending her family's sporting events.
Albert has been an employee of ALMH for 28 years. She likes
working at the hospital because she loves seeing patients happy when
she cleans their rooms and takes pride in lending a helping hand if
she meets someone in the hallway and helps them find their way.
"ALMH is a great place to work. I have a great boss, great
co-workers, and we do great things for the patients we serve," said
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Cathy Albert was one of the 12 Employees of the Month selected in
2012 by co-workers or patients. The other Employees of the Month and
their areas of work were Nathan Buss, acute care; Sara Ayer,
radiology; Jennifer Wilham, rehabilitation; Cindy Jette, special
procedures; Sherri Carlin, laboratory; Julie Cross, rehabilitation;
Leslee Moore, environmental services; April Matherly, special
procedures; Connie Haseley, radiology; Denise Allen, accounting; and
Amy Knox, rehabilitation.
ALMH, at 200 Stahlhut Drive in Lincoln, is a 25-bed
critical-access hospital affiliated with Memorial Health System.
ALMH employs 310 in a variety of roles. For more information, visit
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Edward Morris, dean of the Division of Management at Lindenwood University, has been named Professor of the Year by the Lindenwood Student Government Association. The award was presented to Morris by Megan Shipley, president of the student government, at the Lindenwood faculty meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Shipley said Morris was among five professors nominated this year. The nominating students each make a presentation about the professors they have nominated, after which the entire student government association votes to determine the winner.
"He's an excellent professor," Shipley said of Morris. "He obviously cares a lot about his students."
The award comes in the same year that Morris has seen publication of his book, "The Lindenwood Model: An Antidote to What Ails Undergraduate Education," which recently became available at some local bookstores, including Lindenwood's Spirit & Supplies Shoppe, and on Amazon.com.
"I know that many of my colleagues are equally or more deserving of the Professor of the Year award, but the recognition from LU's students means a great deal to me," Morris said.
Morris came to Lindenwood as a professor in 2001 and was elevated to dean of the Management Division in June of 2006. The winner of last year's award was Jack Beckerle, the head of Lindenwood's American Humanics program.


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Book Title: Lucky Numbers (A TroubleMaker Novel)
Author: Kelly Gendron
Release Date: April 29, 2014
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One locked safe, a troublemaking tattoo, and two determined people… add up to unlocked secrets and a love that just won't stop.
Luke "Lucky" O'Conner is a committed bachelor. His motto…"Nobody's ever getting this Lucky." So when Kaley Harlow walks into his tattoo shop and somehow leaves with the only record of the numbers to his new safe tattooed on her sexy little hip, Lucky's motto is threatened. If he wants to see those numbers again, he has to get close. Closer than he's ever gotten to any woman. And he has three weeks to do it.
Kaley Harlow, a happily washed-up former child star, is out to ruin her reputation. She's through with people looking at her like she's still that innocent little girl in pigtails. Not to mention, her agent has just signed her up for a movie contract. But, really, all Kaley wants is to start a new life and finally go to college.
When Lucky happens into Kaley's life for the second time, the hot, tattooed badass is exactly what she needs to sabotage her image. But this badass has a secret, one that could ruin more than just Kaley's reputation.
Kelly resides in a quiet suburb somewhere between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. Her day job? Kelly works in health care representing a group of nursing facilities in the WNY area. She's been faithfully writing for three years but did write her first book ten years ago. She put it down to raise her son as a single mom and then picked it back up when she and her son finally grew up. That's when she settled into her newly married adult life and started to seriously write again. She's dabbled with Romantic Suspense stories, but recently she's been on a contemporary kick. The recipe for the men in her stories: a dash of bad boy attitude, a cup of strong and confident and, of course, besides being packed with magnificent bodies, and doused with shameless aptitudes, they must have a tender heart you want to rip out of the pages (or your e-Reader) and take to bed with you at night.
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"Put your hand under your dress," he said, his thumb still stroking that damn wet beer bottle like it was her clit.
Kaley turned to see if anyone was watching.
"Hey!" Lucky's stern voice whipped her head back to him. "Look at me. Don't worry about anyone else. I'll warn you if someone is coming." His feet spread her legs farther apart. "Where you're sitting, I'm the only person who can see you. Now, do as I say, unless you want me to stop."
His daring eyes held hers, and all discretion slipped out of her grasp. She gave him his answer by dropping her hand beneath the table.
"That's good," he rasped, deep and low. "Now place your hand on your thigh and slide up to the top of it. Are you there yet?"
She nodded.
"I want you to grip it hard."
With her heart racing and wishing his hand was there instead of hers, her fingers dug into her flesh.
His eyes raping her of any reluctance, he bent forward and grunted, "Harder."
Noting all the hot spots, the tight grip he had on the beer, his biceps and the tattoos bulging from the cut of his sleeves, his mouth that lay slightly open, Kaley squeezed tighter.
"Are you wet?"
"Yes," she gasped, clinging tighter to her thigh. "I'm so wet."
His tongue tapped his top lip. "Are you throbbing?"
"God, I'm aching for you," she said, and she meant it, for she wanted nothing more than his tongue on her.
"Kaley," he said, swaying closer, tempting her, "tell me, is your pussy mine?"
"Yes," she breathed out. "It's all yours."
"Then touch what is mine."


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DMeurope has a very interesting article describing how Google might look like in the near future.
Google calls its vision Universal Search. And no, it doesn't mean they are going to index all those weird Martian porn sites. Frankly, that would be impossible, even for Google.
The US in bits and pieces
Google wants you to have all the data at the distance of a click. So, if you do a search, Google wants to search not just within text, but also images, video, news, maps, books, and so on... rank the data and present it to you in real-time.
Wow. That sounds great! But wait a minute. Do I want to see all that stuff at the same time? I don't want to be flooded with info when I'm just trying to find a nice restaurant or my celeb gossip.
Take it easy.
People at Google think things through. And they know they must present the info in gradual stages. Right now there is no way the human-machine interface could manage that much info at the same time.
Wait a minute, don't. Just blow me away!
But there is an interface that could: multi touch screens! Just now, when I was writing this article I remembered seeing a video of Jeff Han doing his incredible Multi Touch presentation in TE.
Just do a search for "multi touch interface" and you'll actually see a bit of US (Universal Search) in action. The SERPs now include YouTube results, and that's exactly what I was looking for. Good one Goog!
You might recognize the technology from Steven Jobs' keynote address from Macworld 07. Yeah, that's right, iPhone.
This is a kind of human-machine interface that could process all the info Google wants to push our way at the same time. So hold your collective breaths and start saving some money for a serious hardware upgrade.
So, is the US just out to frustrates us all?
Note: all these US innuendos are not in any way a criticism of the Bush Jr. Or are they...?
US sounds great, and done the right way could blow our minds. I mean, it will be great to mesh different information in the search results. The only big problem that I see is data overdose. And for that we need to develop a new human-machine interface. Multi-touch seems very cool and the way to go, at least in my opinion.
For the Search Marketing market, the implications of US might be that we need to start thinking in terms of global optimization strategies. SEM, SMO, SEO, PPC + video optimization, map optimization, etc... more and more the SEO will have to stretch his/her abilities and learn to deal with different kind of media.
My prediction is, deep down everyone will love the US.


text: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged the international community to give Japan a "fair go" as it seeks to take on a broader military role and expand its economy. Signing agreements to boost trade and defence ties, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday became the first leader of his country to address the Australian Parliament. The Canberra visit came a week after Mr Abe announced a reinterpretation of his nation's pacifist constitution to allow Japanese armed forces to come to the aid of friendly nations under attack. Previously the constitution only allowed armed forces to act in Japan's self-defence. It's feared Japan's decision could inflame tensions with China and South Korea, which have competing claims for territories and resources in the East China Sea. But Mr Abbott stood up for Japan, saying it had been an "exemplary international citizen" since the end of World War II. "Give Japan a fair go," Mr Abbott said. Mr Abe told parliament - in only his third official speech in English since becoming prime minister - that a deal to transfer defence equipment and technology would only be the first part in "engraving the special relationship". The relationship would also involve Australia and Japan "joining hands with the United States, an ally for both our nations", as well as boosting joint defence operations and training. "We want to make Japan a country that will work to build an international order that upholds the role of law ... to make the vast seas from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian, and those skies, open and free." While not directly referring to China's concerns, Mr Abbott told the parliament that Australia's renewed ties with Japan was "not a partnership against anyone". "It is a partnership for peace, for prosperity and for the rule of law." Mr Abe told reporters later that Japan's door was open to China, but its near neighbour should not "unilaterally alter the status quo". Mr Abe and Mr Abbott signed the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement, which is expected to enable more than 97 per cent of Australian exports to enter Japan duty free or with preferential access. Australian consumers will benefit from cheaper imported cars and electronics. The Japanese leader gave his strongest hint yet that his country would resume "scientific" whaling despite an international court decision against it. Mr Abbott said the two nations would "agree to disagree" on whaling. Mr Abe, whose country will host the 2020 Olympics, paid tribute to former Olympian Dawn Fraser who was in the parliament's public gallery for his speech. "To me, you are Australia," he said. The charismatic leader also singled out from the gallery, Rob McNeil, who led a rescue team in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami disaster. The Japanese leader opened his speech pledging his country would never again follow the path of aggression. "We will never let the horrors of the past century's history repeat themselves," he said. Mr Abe paid tribute to the fathers and grandfathers who fought in places like Kokoda and Sandakan. The two leaders will visit the Pilbara region of Western Australia on Wednesday.


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On The Path To Automation
Implementing an integrated tooling system proved to be this mold shop's first step toward automated operation of its electrical discharge machines and graphite mills. Today, the shop's robotic cells can run around the clock in an unattended mode.
Automation doesn't have to happen all at once. It is achieved in degrees, one step at a time. For that matter, the move to automation is never complete; there is no such thing as a 100-percent automated shop. Every shop, however, has to have a starting point.
For Matrix Tooling, Inc., in Wood Dale, Illinois, the place to start appeared naturally, when it acquired a ram EDM (electrical discharge machine) equipped with an integrated tooling system. Installing the same system on an existing VMC for electrode milling was the next step. The shop was now on a path that would eventually lead it to install several robotic cells capable of round-the-clock unattended operation. Along the way, the entire shop had to change its approach to job planning on the shop floor and make other adjustments. This transition has been essential to making the shop a competitive supplier to customers on a worldwide basis.
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Matrix was founded in 1978 by the Ziegenhorn family. Today, brothers Paul, Jim, Mark and Tom, along with John Sauber, vice-president and general manager, share the responsibilities of running the operation that consists of the design and contract manufacturing of multi-cavity injection molds. With their newly expanded facility of 30,000 square feet, Matrix has branched into plastic injection molding as well. In recent years, the company achieved ISO 9001 certification. Matrix now provides a full set of services including mold design, mold building and qualification of molds and plastic molded parts.
"Most of our markets," says Mr. Sauber, "are comprised of multi-cavity molds for a variety of consumer goods, electronic, medical and automotive products. We've truly become a global supplier," he continues, "with a significant amount of our molds being shipped not only to our U.S. customers, but also to their other manufacturing facilities including Mexico and the Pacific Rim." This globalization, coupled with customer needs, has driven Matrix's business. Superior consistency across entire sets of molds is critical, as parts from the Matrix molds are sent from facilities all over the world for final assembly.
Matrix, like many successful mold shops, has discovered that integrating engineering and manufacturing technologies is essential to maintaining quality while reducing product cycle times. "In the last few years," Mr. Sauber says, "we've seen production times for a typical multi-cavity mold reduced from, say, 12 weeks to 8 and sometimes even as few as 6 weeks. What we did 5 years ago and what we do today, as far as precision and repeatability is concerned, has dramatically increased.
To meet this challenge, Matrix has moved to integrated design and manufacturing software. By doing the mold design and manufacturing programming on the same system, there is no need to translate data on the shop floor. Once approved, the 3D solids of the cavities and cores and electrodes are delivered directly to machining centers for graphite production and CNC ram EDM.
On the shop floor, Matrix quickly discovered the benefits of palletizing with an integrated tooling system (ITS). The ability to move a block from one machine to another without having to relocate the workpiece has resulted in greater use of machine spindle time.
Matrix's first experience with integrated tooling was in 1991. At that time, a new Makino EDM came outfitted with integrated tooling on the machine head. This system, from Erowa (Arlington Heights, Illinois), was also installed on an existing VMC used for milling graphite electrodes. "We were cutting one electrode at a time," recalls Tom Ziegenhorn, "so the next logical step was to put four chucks in that machine. So we bought another three chucks and let it run for three times as long as we did before." Shortly thereafter another mill was purchased and outfitted with four ITS chucks to increase graphite production.
Matrix reached the point that, in a 12-hour shift, it was cutting electrodes with almost no down time. In addition to the mills, the company had two sinker EDMs with Erowa toolchanging systems on them. While the integrated tooling provided them the flexibility and repeatability across several machining operations, management at Matrix was looking for the next steps. "We were at a point now where Matrix was re-evaluating everything and looking, obviously, at a robot for unattended machining. We knew this step would help us expand into the next level of automation," Mr. Ziegenhorn says.
At the time, Matrix was a two-shift operation, where an operator would change electrodes after machining was complete. Ever-tightening delivery requirements forced Matrix to consider further automation to guarantee full use of a 24-hour day. At the same time, cost-reduction pressures made the company focus on automation. "Orders for multiple mold packages consisting of three of this mold, five of that mold at the same time lends itself to 'production-type' work," says Mr. Sauber.
This development led the shop to consider forming an EDM cell, based on EDM equipment from Makino and robotics from Erowa, to complement the integrated tooling already in place.
The Cell Takes Shape
Initially, a couple of proposals included the EasyChange robot that would increase productivity by simply changing the ITS pallets that were standardized throughout the shop. As discussion progressed, Matrix quickly saw the benefits of a more capable system that included a magazine for storing workpieces and electrodes.
"At first, we were thinking about getting one robot for one machine," says Mr. Sauber, "but then we thought because the robot is not going to be working 100 percent of the time when one EDM is running, why not put two EDMs on one robot? The fact that it was completely programmable gave us a lot of flexibility," he continues. "It enabled us to integrate it into a cell with an existing Makino sinker and only have to purchase one new EDM."
The new cell consisting of the two Makino machines and the ERS Robot from Erowa changes not only workpieces but also the electrodes on the EDMs. The multiple positions on the magazine and the flexibility of the system accommodate the small electrodes as well as palletized workpieces weighing more than 280 pounds.
A second ERS Robot was installed on a Makino SNC 64 to machine electrodes. With this system, unattended machining allows operators to "feed these cells" as Mr. Ziegenhorn calls it. Initially, Matrix had one graphite mill with four chucks. Now, the graphite mill is equipped with one integrated tooling chuck and a second robot system holding 80 electrodes in the magazine. "It's really efficient," Mr. Ziegenhorn says. "You now have a machine that is capable of running 24 hours a day."
Setup of the mills is highly automated. When the robot loads the electrodes, the VMC does not know the height of that electrode. The machine tool is programmed to control a Renishaw probe to measure the piece automatically. This data is then fed back to the control. Because the machine now knows the Z-axis height, it can start the operation. In a similar manner, a laser inside the machine measures not only the diameter but also checks the cutting tool for wear.
Off-line Resetting
With the cell's 24 hours/7 days a week capabilities, it quickly became apparent that doing setups on the machine tool was detracting from maximum machine utilization. "We added a presetting station so operators can do the setup and measuring of the electrodes, as well as the setup and measuring of the workpieces off-line," says Mr. Sauber. "By doing all our programming and setup off-line ahead of time, we just load workpieces and keep going." For full compatibility with the integrated tooling system, the shop chose the Erowa PreSet 3D station.
According to Mr. Sauber, with the addition of the presetting station coupled with the integrated tooling, electrodes and workpieces move from operation to operation, as well as measurement and inspection with repeatable 0.00008-inch accuracy. "With one offset common to all the machines across the shop, productivity and efficiency have definitely increased," says Mr. Sauber. "As far as the guys who do setup in EDM, they are now more involved with transferring the offset information from the programmer or the CAD/CAM system. So, we're not doing a lot of button pushing."
Through the presetting operation, offset data from the workpieces as well as from the electrodes are posted and sent to the EDM via an RS-232 interface. All of the offsets are stored for future jobs. "We see the benefits of taking our three other EDMs, which have only magnetic chucks now, and putting in the same type of palletization system that we have in the automatic machines," says Mr. Sauber.
"Even though these machines do not have drop tanks, and we won't automate them with robots, palletizing them still gives us the benefits of off-line presetting because we can send the data for use on the other CNC machines," Mr. Sauber concludes.
Planning Ahead
Matrix has experienced significant productivity increases in both the EDM cell and the automation of graphite milling. "I would say we are seeing an increased utilization of 70 percent in both the graphite milling and EDMing operations," says Mr. Sauber. For Matrix, it comes down to planning and scheduling the workday.
"A big thing, too, is the human factor," Mr. Sauber continues. "The operators, moldmakers or programmers have to learn to plan their days so that when it gets close to 4:00 and they're leaving at 5:00, they've got something ready to go. In our operations training, we stress that maybe 3 hours of each day need to be spent planning jobs to run overnight. The key to Matrix's automation is developing that mindset, and it's the people that have to drive that."
Matrix plans to continue to develop its multi-cavity niche as well as expand its injection molding capabilities. With a commitment to capital purchases and technology, Mr. Sauber notes that additional automation would follow with the growth of the company. "We'll definitely consider robots on future machine purchases," he says. "Unlike dedicated automation, programmable systems provide us the flexibility to move them to a completely different operation should we choose."
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Section 1: Physical-Chemical Properties
122 Determination of pH, Acidity and Alkalinity
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236 Fish Embryo Acute Toxicity Test
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210 Fish Early Life-Stage Toxicity Test
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430 In vitro Skin Corrosion (Transcutaneous Electric Resistance Test, TER)
431 In vitro Skin Corrosion (Human Skin Model Test)
437 Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability Test Method for Identifying i) Chemicals Inducing Serious Eye Damage and ii)
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438 Isolated Chicken Eye Test Method for Identifying i) Chemicals Inducing Serious Eye Damage and ii) Chemicals Not
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439 In vitro Skin Irritation
488 Transgenic Rodent Somatic and Germ Cell Mutation Assay
Section 3: Degradation and Accumulation
301F Ready Biodegradability
Section 5: Other Test Guidelines
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Many stories of human suffering
and extraordinary human kindness have been written in the aftermath of
the recent terrorist attacks on our country. One of the letters my family
received put a different slant on those tragic events.
A letter written by our daughter-in-law
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charitable acts that we've shown ourselves capable of these past few weeks.
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Amgen Power Analysis: Deignan stage 7, Weening stage 6
TrainingPeaks co-founder reviews power data from the Amgen Tour's two mountain stages
Stage 7 Analysis: Philip Deignan
Ontario – Mount Baldy (126km)
Stage 7 was the last chance to win the Amgen Tour of California and no one left anything to chance. The day started out with an attack by general classification threat Chris Horner, looking to repeat his 2011 victory. Behind Horner, BMC Racing held their own, even with a reduced squad, and was able to get its young rising star, Tejay van Garderen, within reach of victory on the final climb.
As the lead group launched into the final climb up to the Mount Baldy ski area, UnitedHealthcare was fighting to keep Rory Sutherland in the top 10 on the general classification. Alongside Sutherland was his Irish teammate, Philip Deignan. The two fought all the way up the above category (HC) climb and finished in 17th and 18th, three minutes behind the stage winner, and overall Amgen Tour of California winner, Robert Gesink.
1. Robert Gesink, Rabobank 3:37:08
2. Darwin Atapuma Hurtado, Columbia-Coldeportes
3. Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo, Columbia-Coldeportes 0:00:14
18. Philip Deignan, UnitedHealthcare 0:03:15
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Training Stress Score: 254 TSS
Energy: 3434 KJ
Body Weight: 65 kg
Elevation Gain: 3190 m
Peak Power Values
Average Watts: 256 W
Max Watts: 890 W
Normalized Power: 297
Peak 1-minute: 446 W
Peak 6-minutes: 374 W
Peak 20-minutes: 349 W
Peak 180-minutes: 260 W
Climbers take center stage
Stage 7 featured three categorized climbs including two Cat. 2 climbs at Glendora Ridge Road and Glendora Mountain Road, and the final hors categorie climb to Mount Baldy. As you might imagine, Deignan had his highest power readings on the final climb of the day. However, the first two climbs were covered at a rapid pace as Horner was off the front and teams such as Garmin-Barracuda, Rabobank and BMC needed to stay within striking distance.
Summary of Stage 7 Climbs
Glendora Ridge Road (Cat. 2)
Time: 49 minutes
Distance: 20 km
Average Watts: 258 W
Average Heart Rate: 156 bpm
Max Heart Rate: 173 bpm
Watts per Kilogram: 4.0
Glendora Mountain Rd (Cat. 2)
Time: 43 minutes
Distance: 21 km
Average Watts: 325 W
Average Heart Rate: 159 bpm
Max Heart Rate: 171 bpm
Watts per Kilogram: 5.1
Glendora Mountain Road produced the highest 30-minute power of the day for Deignan at 341 W (5.3 w/kg).
Mount Baldy (hors categorie)
Time: 26 minutes
Distance: 7.3 km
Average Watts: 328 W
Average Heart Rate: 166 bpm
Max Heart Rate: 175 bpm
Watts per Kilogram: 5.1
Even though Deignan's overall average on Mount Baldy was 328 watts, it is interesting to note how he covered the first seven minutes of the climb at a much higher 372 W (5.8 w/kg). This is because of the increase in speed, first by BMC Racing and then by the GC favorites such as Gesink, Danielson and van Garderen.
Philip Deignan rode a perfect race for his team in a support role and showed he came to fight to the bitter end. The difference in finishing first and just a couple minutes behind the winner was less than one watt per kilogram. At this level of racing almost every ounce counts, whether it's found on the bike or on the body.
Stage 6 Analysis: Pieter Weening, Orica-GreenEdge
Palmdale – Big Bear Lake (186.3km)
French rider, Sylvain Georges, of Ag2r La Mondiale was the man of the day as he single-handedly held off a charging peloton by just 28 seconds to win stage 6 of the Amgen Tour of California.
Behind the Frenchman, Pieter Weening (Orica-GreenEdge) put on quite a show with an attack on the final climb in pursuit of Georges. Weening hoped to put time into his rivals as he started the day two minutes behind the general classification leader, David Zabriskie.
Weening, was joined by fellow Dutch rider, Wilco Kelderman (Robobank), and Jeremy Vennell (Bissell Cycling). The initial attack and following 12 minutes produced a whopping 412 watt average! The chase reeled in the trio with 3 km to go, but instead of giving in and dropping out of the peloton, Weening continued to pump out the watts and averaged 385 watts for the final 2.5km.
If you think these power numbers are high just think what they could be if the finish of stage 6 wasn't at an altitude of over 6,000ft above sea level. It is typical to see athletes produce five percent less power at these altitudes, as compared to sea level, due to less available oxygen to deliver to their working muscles.
1. Sylvain Georges, Ag2r La Mondiale 5:07:06
2. Peter Sagan, Liquigas-Cannondale 0:00:28
3. Peter Velits, Omega Pharma-Quickstep
41. Pieter Weening, Orica-GreenEdge
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Distance: 186 km
Energy: 4164 KJ
Body Weight: 68 kg
Elevation Gain: 3549 m
Peak Power Values
Average Watts: 259 W
Max Watts: 914 W
Normalized Power: 320
Peak 1-minute: 527 W
Peak 6-minutes: 439 W
Peak 20-minutes: 391 W (set while in the breakaway move)
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